Bastian Clevé

Bastian Clevé (born 1 January 1950, in Munich), is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Biography
Clevé grew up in Hamburg. After a two-year stint as sound-assistant at the TV-studios in Munich he studied Visual Communication in Hamburg at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (University of Fine Arts of Hamburg) where he continued filmmaking. In 1975/76 he was awarded a one-year scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. He was touring with his experimental short films throughout the continent. After a brief return to Germany he relocated to Los Angeles in 1979 where he worked as a freelance writer, director and producer.

In 1991 he returned to Germany to become Professor and Head of the Department for “Film Production and the Business of Entertainment” at the newly established Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, in charge of the training program and the curriculum for motion-picture- and TV-producers. Clevé wrote and edited more than two dozens books on filmmaking and film production. He is married with a daughter.

Work
Clevé started personal filmmaking in 1969 with short-films progressing into feature-lengths works. He sustained his efforts by winning awards and by touring and lecturing extensively throughout the world. Upon moving to Los Angeles he focused on the commercial side of filmmaking by picking up the craft of producing. He continued both his artistic and commercial filmmaking later on throughout his professorship in Germany.

His first DVD entitled Journeys contains Schau ins Land, Nachtwache, Lichtblick, Die Reise, Empor, Nach Bluff and Fatehpur Sikri.

Filmography
The focus of Clevé‘s artistic filmmaking lies in the manipulation of real-live imagery using sophisticated in-camera-editing and optical printing.

Short films

 * 1971	Pariser Traum / Rève Parisien
 * 1974	Götterdämmerung
 * 1975	Schau ins Land
 * Seelig
 * Nachtwache
 * Lichtblick


 * 1977	Über den Flammenbaum
 * Die Reise
 * Empor
 * Nach Bluff


 * 1978	Amerika: Neben anderem: Rodeo
 * Szenische Übersicht
 * Parade für die Unabhängigkeit
 * Am Wegerand


 * 1979	Tollhaus
 * 1980	Raga
 * Oscar
 * Sehen ist Glauben
 * Labyrinth
 * Fatehpur Sikri
 * East I
 * East II
 * Transit


 * 1981	Puzzles
 * Zenith
 * Tollhaus II


 * 1982	Der mystische Augenblick
 * Kaskaden
 * Echo


 * 1983	Pool
 * Motion Picture
 * Descanso
 * Winterlandschaft


 * 1986	Kyrie

Feature-length films

 * 1978	San Francisco Zephyr
 * Der Deutschlandfahrer


 * 1980	Exit Sunset Boulevard
 * 1981	Holi
 * 1983	Der Sheriff aus Altona
 * 1986	Das blinde Glück
 * 1988	Die Reise aus dem 23.Jahrhundert
 * 1992	Winterreise im Jahre 1
 * 2001	So weit die Füße tragen (a.k.a. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me)
 * 2005	Klang der Ewigkeit (a.k.a. Sound of Eternity)

Commercial filmmaking
Clevé‘s commercial filmmaking as a writer/director/producer has been for TV and as producer/production-manager/line-producer for German and American third party projects (Bagdad Café') or other contracted work. He has worked and produced throughout the world.


 * Lumigraph
 * Oskar Fischinger – Life and Work
 * Die Familie Oppermann
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Caracas
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Bogota
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Saõ Paulo
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Vancouver
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Quebec City
 * Die experimentellen Filme des Bastian Clevé
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Buenos Aires
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Rio de Janeiro
 * Melodie einer Stadt: Mexiko
 * ''Out of Rosenheim (a.k.a. Bagdad Café)
 * Nightchildren
 * Die verklärte Nacht

Honors and awards (selection)

 * Lichtblick				BMI-Award 1976
 * Empor				German Film Award 1978
 * Am Wegerand			German Film Award 1979
 * San Francisco Zephyr	 	French Film-Critic’s Award, Hyères Filmfestival 78
 * Der Deutschlandfahrer		BMI-Shortfilm-Award  1978
 * Exit Sunset Boulevard		BMI-Screenplay-Award 1978
 * Das blinde Glück			BMI-Screenplay-Award 1985
 * Sound of Eternity			HD Fest DEFFY-Award 2006

Books (selection)

 * 1989	The Art of Personal Filmmaking
 * 1994	Film Production Management
 * Interview: Philipp Glass


 * 1997	1.Akademiekreis Production Value
 * Development/Stoffentwicklung
 * Cashing In – Chancen und Risisken privater Filmfinanzierungsfonds
 * Wege zum Geld
 * Drehen in Deutschland – Shooting in Germany


 * 1998	Investoren im Visier
 * Von der Idee zum Film


 * 1999	Film Production Management
 * 2005	Gib niemals auf – Filmökonomie in der Praxis